Richard F. Novak is a physician and sculptor who has an interest in the American neoclassical sculptors who studied in Rome and Florence in the nineteenth century. There are over seventy-five of his own works in public spaces, corporate, and private collections. For the past ten years he has also studied writing, publishing three novels and two novellas. He has spent a year of his life traveling throughout Italy enjoying the works of the Italian sculptors. His books always incorporate a background of sculpture or sculptors. Examples of Novak’s sculpture can be seen in the Photo Gallery section of this website.